How to disable the touch pad on a Sony Vaio (and of course enable it again!)

OK I finally took the time to figure out how to disable touchpad mouse so it doesn't take two hours to make a post !

I wanted to share this with everyone !!!

Touchpads can get very annoying at times, especially when you are writing a long mail or a piece for your blog. Most of the laptops around have a special button to turn the touchpad on\off, like my old Toshiba had a Fn+F9 button to get rid of it. In Sony Vaio there is no such special button to take care of the same (and I wonder why?) So, how do I get to disable the touchpad when I don't need it?

Here's the key:

Go to C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series

Run VCCPointingDevice.exe

Untick the "Enable" checkbox and voila!

This would disable the touchpad. You could create a shortcut to the file above for quick, easy access!

To enable the touchpad you need to run the same executable and tick the "Enable" checkbox. You need to have an external mouse to move around, and if you are a GNU-Linux freak, I guess you can make you way around without the mouse.

Moderator note: There's also another method shown in the comments below.

Need more help to re- enable my touchpad. Someone DISabled it, and I forgot how they did it. Yes, I like it dis-abled, but I'm afraid if I ever drop my wireless mouse or forget to bring it, I can't use the laptop at all! My kid says I can make the touchpad settings very extreme so that they are not very sensitive and it would take a lot to make that stupid cursor jump all over when I'm typing - which is the reason I wanted the touchpad disabled in the first place.

Here's my problem: Your advice is missing a step or something for my laptop. I have a new Sony Vaio E Series with Windows 7. My problem is that you say to go to C:\Program Files\Sony\Setting Utility Series
But I only have a choice of C:\Program Files\Sony and then the following choices